And I see you are on your second FRS!

Still banging away in the shop with a 1930ish Hot Rod and a 65 Healey going together.

Finally matched my OBD MX+ with my new phone from a few months ago.
The app update fits in the new phone and got the MX+ firmware updated through it.

All green checks and no codes at all.

Yup. Pretty OK in my estimation.

Leased mine September 16th 2013, but fell in love so I bought it out in 2016.

Lots of miles since then. Will be doing spark plugs for the 2nd time @ 180k miles.

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Your voltage is a tad low.

Yeah…every 3 years during winter my battery goes out completely. I just happen to be on year 3 of this battery, and winter is coming lol

LOL "Winter"

Seems like you should get more than 3 years out of a battery, maybe try a maintainer when its parked?

P.S. - Gen 1.5 Dash Swap?

Did you do a gauge cluster swap?

Americans living in the sun belt should call their winter "fake winter" or "winterettes"

Just like leather and leatherettes/fake leather :D

Never done a maintainer but that’s a great idea. Just a standard size battery too.

But yes this a gauge cluster from a new Gen + the GeraldJustProjects controller.

Yeah 2018 TS cluster

Three years does seem unusually short. The heat kills batteries pretty quickly down here in Texas but even then they usually last for about four. I'm on my second Braille battery now and the first one even lasted longer than three years (though it spent the last few months on a maintainer when the car sat for more than a week).

Anyway, great "action pic"!

Thanks for the insight, I'll be very disappointed if I once again have a 3rd-year battery failure.

This is a pretty heavy-duty battery I have (8lbs heavier than stock lol) and when I started it on Saturday the voltage went above 14 so I think this one will make it a couple more years.

Both my kids will soon learn stick on our 2013 FRS.

At least the older one will - ;)

Not a MY2013 but an original owner of a 2016.

Was garaged and only driven 9K total for first 4 years of ownership.
Currently at 48K and daily driven.
Drove it from NYC to LA for relocation, in 3 days.
Planning on keeping it for my future kids :)

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Look at all these young kids with their cars purchased in 2014 and later. Pshaw!

Oh just add your spam link and get it over with.

How do you ID spam?

:iono:

My 2013 FRS's OEM battery has lasted over 9 years. Mild climate, garaged, 30,000 miles, driven a couple times a week (short trips).

:iono:

New "user" posted at 6:23 and the immediately logged off.

User same obviously created by a random name generator. when you have two names jammed together it is usually the first indicator.

Usually have some weird car type and location. Not that there are no BMW drivers in Amsterdam but it just looks like they threw whatever in the spaces just to answer the questions.

A post that is only vaguely related to the thread, says "Hello", "Me too" or something else short and meaningless. In this case the post is complete gibberish to the thread topic. We varied enough that the algorithm could not figure out the main theme.

As far as I remember, of the hundreds of bot posts I have reported or called out, I have received a reply one time by somebody saying they were not a bot and then a week later they edited a spam link into all their posts!

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

But, why do they (it) do spam?

:sigh:

Mostly to get clicks on sites. Sort of like the old sandwich board guys on the side of the road. If you attract enough attention eventually you may make a sale.

http://www.iambrian.net/wp-content/u...fesandwich.gif

Or the more malicious reason of getting you to click on a link that will cause a virus, ransomware, hacking, etc.

https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/13045...ik-app-_03.gif

Free reflective airtags! Many fun colors!
Take one home with you!

Dead Battery or Batteries?
 

I was amused to see this post. Frisky, our very low mileage first year Scion, hasn't had its battery changed, and since it often sits for as long as two weeks without firing up, for about half its life I have expected to find it unresponsive one morning. Finally, last week, when I clicked to open the door, nothing happened. I used the key to gain access to the hood latch, but everything lit up and Frisky cranked as usual. I was only a little surprised to see that both our key fobs had dead batteries.


FWIW: It's fairly easy to change the 2016 coin cells, and no reprogramming is required.

My fob battery died before the car battery too! Fob died somewhere in year 7 I think. Car battery lasted about 8 years. It did start giving me a bit of trouble on cold days the year before though.

I was reading the oe panasonic is good for a decade if taken care of, mine was about 6-7 years old when I swapped it but apparently techs will take 'em top off the water put it on a tender with a desulfate cycle and voila, another 2-5 years. Most don't bother to do the tender/desulfate cycle after checking the water levels and jumping it.

2 more weeks and I join the 10 year club. I should wash it...

I was super bummed when my original finally gave up the ghost. It was only one cell that quit taking charge. Didn't respond to de-sulfation. They really are excellent batteries. I'd buy another if I could find it.

Washing is overrated. I don't even garage mine.

Still loving my 1.0.

I have only replaced oil and a flat. Has about 40,000 miles at this time.

Nice looking 308, but boy do the tires look worn ! Are they metrics?

Didn't the values of these skyrocket in the last few years?

Isn't that a Mondial...?

Mine is pretty beat up. 3rd owner of a series 10 2013. 90K on the clock and now it just get abused at the track

I thought that at first too, but no. It's the less "famous" 308.

Original owner, 2013, about 140k km daily driven all year with studded winter tires in Quebec (real :-) ) winters and performance tires for HPDEs in summer :-) Not a show car by any means, but still pretty clean and above all well maintained… upgraded things gradually over the years and the turbo setup has been reliable and fun. Would be hard pressed to find this level of performance, engagement and practicality in another car without spending lots of $… so yeah, planning to keep it a long as it will have me :-)

Oh, holy crap, you're right! That's the "Dino" that came after the actual Dino and before the Mondial. Totally forgot about those.

:clap:

Actually the tires are new from Coker tire. Original XWX. I had to park in some mud (actually my yard, to let another car out of the drive). I don't park it in the street.

Just passed ten years ownership about a week ago, would’ve posted On the day but didn’t want to get roasted for faded headlights.

120k miles
1 new shortblock
3 sets of wheels
? Cones hit

Our cars do age well, don't they, my friend?

. . .

I’m half amused, half impressed, and half “fuck you” so well done 10/10.

Nice! I have yet to see one of those on the road. My mother drove a '68 Cutlass convertible in the early to mid 70's re-painted dark metallic green. panoramacharter.ltd

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Well that almost fits there Bot!